Split-Screen Private Content Display With Authenticated Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile terminals with large screens mix all content from installed applications, requiring users to search through numerous images to find private content, leading to inconvenience and potential privacy breaches when sharing devices.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a method and apparatus that separates private and non-private content across different screen areas, with authentication required for accessing private content, enhancing privacy and search efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If all content from installed applications is mixed together on a single screen, then the screen can display more content, but users cannot quickly find private content and privacy may be breached when sharing devices

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent display capacityVSAvoidcontent search convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The screen is divided into a first screen area for displaying non-private content and a second screen area for displaying private content. This segmentation allows users to quickly locate private content by navigating to the dedicated second screen area, eliminating the need to search through all content mixed on a single screen, while still maintaining high content display capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If all content from installed applications is mixed together on a single screen, then the screen can display more content, but privacy protection is compromised when devices are shared

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent display capacityVSAvoidprivacy protection
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The screen is divided into a first screen area for displaying non-private content and a second screen area for displaying private content. This segmentation allows users to quickly locate private content by navigating to the dedicated second screen area, eliminating the need to search through all content mixed on a single screen, while still maintaining high content display capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different areas of the screen are assigned different security attributes: the first screen area displays non-private content accessible to all users, while the second screen area displays private content that requires authentication. This local quality differentiation ensures privacy protection in the second screen area while maintaining overall content display capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Quantity of substance

If users search through hundreds or thousands of images to find private content, then all content can be stored together, but user experience is degraded and time is wasted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent storage capacityVSAvoidcontent retrieval time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The screen is divided into a first screen area for displaying non-private content and a second screen area for displaying private content. This segmentation allows users to quickly locate private content by navigating to the dedicated second screen area, eliminating the need to search through all content mixed on a single screen, while still maintaining high content display capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Private content is pre-identified and separated into a dedicated second screen area before user retrieval. This preliminary action of categorizing and positioning private content in advance eliminates the need for users to search through hundreds or thousands of images, significantly reducing content retrieval time while maintaining full storage capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Reliability

If a second screen area is added for private content, then privacy and search efficiency are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidscreen structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The second screen area serves multiple functions: it displays private content, requires authentication for access, and can be independently controlled. This multi-functionality justifies the added structural complexity by providing enhanced privacy protection and user control capabilities that a single-screen design cannot achieve.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12566895B2Method and apparatus for displaying content, and computer device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.03.03 GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE INC OF ZHUHAI
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of computers. Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying content, and a computer device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which are used for effectively improving the safety of private content. The method includes: receiving a private content display operation for a terminal device, wherein private content is the content, which is added into a set private content set; and in response to the private content display operation, displaying non-private content in a first screen area of the terminal device, and displaying the private content in a second screen area of the terminal device.